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...least some professors are exercised about public apathy. Says Dr. Jim Ranchino, a political scientist at Arkansas' Ouachita Baptist University: "Our society has gone wild. Nobody has convinced the American people that we have any serious problems. There is no direction, no planning. People are living like tomorrow is going to be just like today. But it is not going...
...have an unsettling effect on a legislature. Last week, however, lawgivers of the sovereign state of Oklahoma laid aside these minor matters to concentrate on a historic decision. Without a dissenting nay, the assembly decreed that the collared lizard, known as "the mountain boomer" amid the hills of Ouachita and Wichita, will henceforth be designated as the Sooner State's official reptile...
...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
...registration a guarantee that the Negro will get to vote. In Ouachita Parish, La. a nonprofit Citizens' Council was formed last year "to protect and preserve by all legal means our historical Southern social institutions." The parish (county) registrar let council members into her office when it was closed to the general public (nights, holidays, etc.), let them examine voting lists and draw up their own lists of some 3,500 Negro registrants. When the council members followed up by challenging the 3,500, the registrar ordered the Negroes to appear within ten days to prove their identity...
Faubus, onetime highway director for ex-Governor Sid McMath, was accused of attending Commonwealth College in the Ouachita Mountains. Commonwealth, which folded in 1940, was later branded a Communist-line school by the U.S. Department of Justice. Faubus admitted he had hitchhiked to the school from his Ozark home in 1935 to accept a proffered scholarship, spotted the Red danger signals after a few weeks, and hiked right back home. Cherry refused to let the matter drop, suggested Faubus was lying. Faubus fought back with a charge that Cherry was the tool of special business interests; he chortled happily when...